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OpenVAS is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

The Open Vulnerability Assessment System (OpenVAS) is a framework of several services and tools offering a comprehensive and powerful vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management solution.

The actual security scanner is accompanied with a daily updated feed of Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs), over 35,000 in total (as of April 2014).

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Issue on making greenbone-security-assistant

I tried to make greenbone to use openvas as below: i seems openvas installed correctly. this is openvas-check-setup output: Step 1: Checking OpenVAS Scanner ... OK: OpenVAS Scanner is present in version 5.0.5. OK: OpenVAS Scanner CA…
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OpenVAS shows $Revision: $ instead of actual Service Version

I'm using OpenVAS-8 with nmap 7. On the reports of OpenVAS you can see a field called "Version used". On mine it just shows Version used: $Revision: 1369 $ or Version used: $Revision: 69 $ but not the version. I think there is a misinterpretation…
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Can Openvas scan itself?

Is it possible to install Openvas on Ubuntu 12 or 14 server and perform a scan the same server? I have only one server in my network and want to perform hosting vulnerabilities tests. Kind of noob question but I can't find an answer.
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How to call OpenVAS Manager service directly?

I have installed the whole OpenVAS architecture on a Debian 8 machine. I can access the OpenVAS Manager service through Greenbone Security Assistant and through the OpenVAS CLI command line, but what I need is to query the service directly by using…
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How do you get the task_id in openvas_lib for python?

I get connected to openvas, and successfully run the scan. However, I can't get the results to show without the task_id. How do I find the task_id? from threading import Semaphore from functools import partial from openvas_lib import…
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OpenVAS commands getting Failed Authentication error

while trying to run some of OpenVAS CLI commands, i'm getting Failed Authentication error message. OpenVAS is installed on CentOS machine. I tried with the user account credentials but still getting the same error message.Is there any way to over…
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OpenVAS create alert with HTML attachment

I am having difficulty creating an alert with an attachment "HTML" (“Method > Email > Content > Attach > Html") I have the ID for the HTML report, but can't figure out how to insert that into the ""…
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Issue with XML and InputStream

I am trying to use XML to speak to a server and return data using the following code. Once active the code seems to wait indefinitely. Other threads in the program still remain active. I have used simalar code to speak to the server with no issue…
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Splitting a String without spaces

I have the following string which is generated by an external program (OpenVAS) and returned to my program successfully as a string.
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Getting a SSL Error in OpenVas

This is the first time i'm using a vulnerability scanner to find vulnerabilities in my system. I have chosen OpenVas as the scanner. But when i execute giving the path of the target to scan, i get an error message as 'SSL Error'. I selected SSL…
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Cannot access OpenVAS following installation

I am sure that once I find the issue I am going to feel like a fool, but I have been pouring highlevel debugging into something that I know the answer must be right there. Same issue on 2 different 'new' CentOS machines, I install OpenVAS, run…
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MySQL Community Server - Security Patches

I have been running a MySQL Community Server for a couple of years now and a new client has asked for a report from a vulnerability scanner on our network. I am using OpenVAS and the network is fine apart from the server, its returning a high threat…
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